St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-27
PLEURO.pNEUMONIA.
Legislation on This subject StrOns
IY IrgAd hY NEiuueSnfa ennic

Legislation on This subject Strong.
Iy Urged by Minnesota eopic.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 26.--The subject Of
pleuro- pneumonia is likely to receive at
tention during the coming week IN the
house. Hatch. of Missouri, has charge of
the bill and Is determined to get it up at
the first opportunity. The Minnesota del
egation will vote solid for the bill They
received to-day memorial from n. p.
Clarke and d. B. Searl, of ST. Cloud: j. J.
Hill, George W. Hill and w. r. Merriam.
of St. Paul; G. n. Cosgrove, of LIE Sueur;
William Leggett, of Benson; r. ID. Hub
bard of Mankato, and others. representing
the auxiliary committee of the National
Convention of Cattle Growers, held at
Chicago last November, urging the dele
CATION to support what Is known as the
Miller bill, introduced in the senate by
Spooner. of Wisconsin, and in the house
by Delegate Carey, of Wyoming. The Min
nesota committee says the entire cattle in
terests of the United States are threatened
with calamity beside which every one of
those which have been made the subject Of
SPECIAL LEGISLATION
by congress, such as the great fire at Chi
recently. the Charleston earthquake. are
insignificant. The disease known as pleuro-
pneumonia. hitherto confined to the states
west of the Alleghenies. has recently
reached the Western states of Ohio. Ken
tucky, Illinois, Missouri and even Dakota.
All have been visited in turn, and to-day
the greatest cattle center in the world is
condemned as pest center. The loss with
which this industry is now threatened can
only be approximately gauged by an appre-
citation of the extent of the industry and
the losses suffered by other countries in
which it has obtained a footing. The
value Of the cattle in Minnesota exceeds
$40, 600, 900. and when The value of the
land and buildings devoted to the raising OF
cattle. and valueless without them, is added,
the total money value of the property
in Minnesota affected by contagious cattle
diseases cannot be estimated at less than
500, 600, 000 The total value of the prop
erty i'll the United States thus affected is
cOnSeryatively estimated at 81. 000 600. 900.
Now in England where the disease was
ALLOWED TO OBTAIN A FOOTHOLD
not less than $780, 600 represents the direct
loss on cattle and the vast sums spent in
endeavoring to root out pleuro- pneumonia,
while, owing to the laXity of the measures
duopteu Ill Tie DegllllllDS, lIS suppression
has not yet been effected. In Australia
prompt measures have rid the country of
this disease, but not before $75, OOO 900 was
lost by the cattle owners and expended by
the colonial government The value of the
cattle in the United States is four times
that in Great Britain, and in our far West
ern states especially if the dreaded disease
once obtains a footing the conditions are
such that to control it, much less to sup
press it, would be utterly impossible.
Everything depends upon energetic and de-
cisive measures being at once inaugurated.
The bill has been carefully prepared by the
committee of the Cattle Growers assoca-
ton now in Washington, which should be a
guarantee that it is free from legal objec-
ton. Every organization of farmers and
cattlemen IN the country has passed resolu-
tions urging upon congress the necessity OF
such legislation. The Farmers Nat onal
congress held at st. Paul last summer
urgently recommend it. The president. in
view of the urgent recommendations made
to him by j. J. Hill, called attention to Its
necessity in his message.